دور الجامعات السعودية في تعزيز قيم المواطنة الرقمية : دراسة تحليلية للمواقع الإلكترونية للجامعات السعودية

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The current study aimed to identify the degree of the contribution of Saudi Universities in promoting the values and principles of digital citizenship among its students by analyzing all that were published on the official electronic pages of universities or the so-called "university official website".

the study also aimed to reveal the highest values of digital citizenship and the lowest percentage of the universities ’degree of care by publishing them through their electronic pages, and looking for the existence of differences in that according to the difference in the chronological age between one university and another.

to analyze the electronic pages of universities, the researcher relied on a special card that he prepared to achieve the goals of the study, as this card included the nine main elements of digital citizenship principles, through which a number of sub-value for each element was deduced and the number after the arbitration was settled by specialists at (58) values for digital citizenship.

then, the researcher applied it on the official pages of Saudi public universities on the internet, which amount to (30) universities in the academic year 1441 ah; as it was divided according to the chronological age into three groups (old universities - middle-aged (modern) universities - emerging universities).

the results of the study showed that three of the principles of digital citizenship outperformed the remaining nine, which are, the first principle called "digital access", the third "digital communication" and the fifth "digital etiquette (fluency)" and this embodies the great interest of Saudi Universities in promoting the elements of these principles among their students.

also, the results proved the absence of statistically significant differences attributed to the difference in the chronological establishment age between Saudi Universities in their contributions to promote the values and principles of digital citizenship.

the study recommended universities to take care of the less promoted elements of digital citizenship, which are represented in the principles of "digital security" and "digital health and wellness", also, recommended universities to create courses for digital citizenship, train university professors on integrating the principles of digital citizenship into the curriculum, conduct more studies on the contributions of Saudi Universities in promoting the values of digital citizenship through various social media channels such as: twitter, Facebook, snapchat...

and to conduct more studies on practical proposals and programs through which the role of universities in spreading the principles of digital citizenship in Saudi society at all its levels can be promoted.